We have already informed you about the Skyrim Forge $15,000
Modding Challenge. Now Curse has announced that the giveaway
deadline has been extended. The new deadline is now January 31st,
2012.

This hopefully will give you modders plenty of time to work with
the new toolkit that Bethesda is providing. It is now extended past
the holiday season in hopes of giving you guys all the time you
need to create some awesome new content and upload it to
SkyrimForge.com!

Soon, Skyrim mods are even going to be available via the Curse
Client! The Curse Client is used by over 2 million gamers each
month to easily keep their mods up to date and to install new mods
in just a few clicks. Previously, Curse had been looking at using
CTOC; however, hearing the…

We have previously reported that Bethesda Softworks demanded
that Mincraft's creator Notch change the name of his new game,
titled Scrolls, as it infringes on Bethesda's Elder
Scrolls trademark.

Now Notch has tweeted that the case is actually going to court.
Do you think that Bethesda has a case here and Scrolls does
sound too similar? As Notch points out, the Bethesda-published
Rage is also a single-word title that was used in the title
of other games, such as Rage of Mages or Streets of
Rage.

Back in June, Bethesda Softworks was hacked by the infamous
group called LulzSec. While back then Bethesda's Matt Grandstaff
stated "These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are
any additional protections we might take that would be prudent",
these additional protections were not enough to prevent another
attack.

Bethesda forum users have received the following e-mail (if you
are a registered user and you haven't, check your spam box):

Dear Bethesda Forum User,

We have identified a potential breach of our forum user
database that occurred Friday morning, Aug 12. We have reset your
forum password as a precaution, in the event that any encrypted
forum user passwords were compromised.

The first screenshot of a Dunmer (or Dark Elf) thief in The
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been released by Bethesda via the
official Elder Scrolls Facebook page, after a poll among fans on
what characters they'd like to see (all of the promo pics so far
have shown a warrior Nord).

How do you like the screenshot? And what kind of player
character would you like to see next?

Notch, the creator of the indie video game Minecraft, has
tweeted that apparently Bethesda Softworks lawyers are after his
company Mojang, claiming that the title of his new game, titled
Scrolls, infringes on The Elder Scrolls trademarks
and will be confused with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Bethesda wants Mojang to change its new game's title, or else the
matter will likely end up in court.

Bethesda's fondness of litigation is quite well known (for
example their long lasting lawsuit against Interplay over the
rights to Fallout Online), but I think we can all agree that
harassing the makers of indie games is pretty low. Can anyone in
their right mind actually confuse Notch's game with Skyrim?
I very much doubt it. And "scrolls" itself is a rather …